Tucson Police Chief: Upholding Federal Law By Cracking Down On Illegal Aliens Is Bad

By William Teach December 7, 2017 – 6:49 am

Chris Mangus is the police chief of Tucson, Arizona. He obviously has a problem in arresting certain law breaker, but, I bet if you decided to perform a little bit of petty theft you’d find yourself dealing with officers of the law

Tucson’s Police Chief: Sessions’s Anti-Immigrant Policies Will Make Cities More Dangerous

As the police chief here, I’m deeply troubled by the Trump administration’s campaign against “sanctuary cities,” which refuse to turn over undocumented immigrants to federal authorities. Washington is trying to retaliate against them by withholding funding for things like crime prevention, drug treatment and mental health programs.

Tucson is not technically a sanctuary city. But we are close to the border with Mexico and take pride in being welcoming to immigrants. Yet the government has warned us that our grants are in danger.

Still, while federal judges in Chicago and San Francisco have ruled against President Trump’s executive order to withhold money from sanctuary cities, the administration’s crackdown on immigrants is already having a chilling effect on police-community relations here. Many community members have told me that Latinos are not turning to us for help or working with us as often as they have in the past. Their growing sense of fear and distrust is clearly a consequence of the anti-immigrant rhetoric coming from Mr. Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Overall, illegal aliens tend to not report crimes in the first place, but, regardless, are we particularly concerned with criminals not reporting crimes against other criminals? If they have a problem, perhaps they should get the hell out of our country, which they are illegally present within. Perhaps Police Chief Mangus should actually uphold the law, not just the ones he likes. He takes an oath to uphold all laws.

The Justice Department could be playing a key role in building on the Obama-era policing reforms that many of my fellow police chiefs strongly support. Instead, the changes it wants to make — to force local police officers to cooperate much more closely with federal immigration authorities — will compromise public safety by reducing community confidence in law enforcement.

Here’s the thing: they aren’t our community. They’re another country’s community. We aren’t responsible for them.

The message from Washington is that cities need to refocus on “law and order.” Yet the harsh anti-immigrant rhetoric and Mr. Sessions’s reckless policies ignore a basic reality known by most good cops and prosecutors: If people are afraid of the police, if they fear they may become separated from their families or harshly interrogated based on their immigration status, they won’t report crimes or come forward as witnesses.

Yet, Mangus’ police arrest non-illegal aliens all the time who end up being separated from their families when they are sent to jail. Mangus continues going with all the same boilerplate on this subject, forgetting that it is his job to not pick and choose which crimes to enforce. If he’s not willing to enforce all laws, then perhaps he, and the other law enforcement supporters who protect illegals, should resign. Their first job is to protect citizens and those who are lawfully present in the United States.

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Four Takeaways From Gathering Of Mayors Who Took Fossil Fueled Trips To Discuss Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach December 6, 2017 – 5:52 pm

Nothing says “I care” like being a complete hypocrite

(NY Times) CHICAGO — Mayors came here by the dozens (45 in total) on Tuesday to voice their support for the international Paris climate accord and their displeasure with President Trump’s plan to withdraw the United States from that agreement. Their solution? They announced their own climate agreement.

In other words, they decided that their underlings citizens would bear the burden. First, they signed said agreement

Under the agreement, which is not legally enforceable, city leaders committed to reducing their own localities’ greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, the national goal negotiated by Mr. Obama’s administration. The pact also called for cities to publish quarterly emissions data; to consider climate change when building infrastructure; and to take an active role in advocating climate-friendly policies.

That’s on them. Have fun with higher cost of living, people living in these Democratic Party cities. Who often do little to stop actual issues, like crime

Some mayors see climate change as a rallying cry for anti-Trump sentiment.

In other words, this is politics.

Along with big-city Democratic mayors were some small-town ones.

But, still Democrats who took fossil fueled trips on the taxpayer dime to figure out ways to put citizens more under control of government.

It was no accident that Chicago hosted this.

Mr. Emanuel, a Democrat, has emerged as a vocal, persistent check on Mr. Trump’s powers, clashing with the administration on climate change, law enforcement and immigration.

“I’m determined to make Chicago a Trump-free zone,” Mr. Emanuel said in an interview on Tuesday, though he was just a few blocks from the Trump Tower skyscraper on Chicago’s riverfront.

It’d be funny as all get out if Trump decided to start spending weekends in Chicago, tweeking Rahm’s nose.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 6, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible carbon pollution spewing dog which causes the seas to rise, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem.

Most definitely a Canadian, one of my favorites.

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Who’s Up For A Hillary Clinton Tree Topper?

By William Teach December 6, 2017 – 10:48 am

Obviously, this is for all those Leftists who complain about the Christian religion on display in public, people saying Merry Christmas, so forth

“Resistmas”.

From the link

Could you imagine a more fitting angel for your Christmas tree than Beyonce-perfection-Knowles?

She’s an actual angel in human form. As is Serena. Michelle Obama. Oprah.

And you can have them all decorating your festive fur, because nonprofit organisation Women To Look Up To has made a load of 3D figurines of inspiring women.

‘Every Christmas we place a ‘Topper’ […] made of no more than plastic and glitter on top of trees,’ they say.

Though Hillary isn’t mentioned in the article, she is the first you see when you hit the website for Women To Look Up To

Nothing says “role model” like losing an election twice, being considered extremely shady, and skating on allegations that would have seen other women charged and jailed.

That said, you can get one made for heroes like your mom and wife. Or, how about this spunky lady?

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Newest Thing That Contributes To ‘Climate Change’: Bitcoin

By William Teach December 6, 2017 – 7:59 am

If it isn’t one thing, it’s something else. The Cult of Climastrology will always find new things to link to their cult-like beliefs. Some things will be affected, some things are contributors

(Daily Caller) Bitcoin has caught the attention of liberal writers who argue the digital crypto-currency is contributing to global warming.

Vox and The New Republic (TNR) have pieces out highlighting the massive amounts of energy it takes to mine Bitcoins, most of which comes from fossil fuels. Most Bitcoins are mined in China, fueled by cheap coal power.

TNR’s Emily Atkin wrote that “Bitcoins are contributing to the warming of the atmosphere without providing a significant public benefit in return,” adding “[w]e only have 32 years left for carbon emissions to peak and then rapidly decrease, if our planet is to remain livable.” (snip)

Atkins sees Bitcoin as an environmental scourge that needs to be gotten rid of since “buying a Bitcoin is no different than investing in an unpredictable stock on NASDAQ, but the cost to planet is immeasurably worse.”

Then we have the Voxsplaining version

Vox Umair Irfan noted that “mining Bitcoin is a hugely energy-intensive process, even though the currency only exists digitally.” Bitcoin mining uses more energy than some countries, Irfan reported.

“That’s on par with the energy use of the entire country of Morocco, more than 19 European countries, and roughly 0.7 percent of total energy demand in the United States, equal to 2.8 million US households,” Irfan wrote.

They’re also very upset that Bitcoin isn’t for the public good. Regardless, it’s always something with this crowd. They always find a way to ruin everything. Well, except their own use of fossil fueled vehicles. Furthermore, one has to wonder what the electricity usage of Vox and The New Republic are.

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NY Times: National Concealed Carry Reciprocity Is A Threat To Law And Order Or Something

By William Teach December 6, 2017 – 7:43 am

The Editorial Board of the NY Times is Very Upset that about this notion, which is actually built into the U.S. Constitution, ie, reciprocity. The subhead as showing on the app version says “concealed-carry reciprocity is a threat to law and order”

Going National With Concealed Guns

It’s hard to believe that congressional Republicans would react to the nation’s latest mass shootings by advancing a measure that would allow travelers to more easily carry hidden, loaded handguns across state lines. But that’s exactly what the G.O.P. majority on the House Judiciary Committee did last week when it approved a bill that pleases the National Rifle Association while ignoring the public’s desperate need — and broad support — for stronger gun safety.

Except, it was actually introduced on 1/3/2017. It’s great how the NYT, one of the leading papers in the U.S. and even the world, can’t get their facts straight, eh? Oh, ok, they spin it a bit with the “advancing” part. Regardless, it’s not in response to a shooting, and, hey, the nutter was using rifles, many which were homemade.

The bill could go to a floor vote this week. It would require each state to recognize the “concealed carry” gun permits of all other states, no matter how weak. The permit of a gun owner from Georgia, where weak standards allow even abusive partners to carry hidden guns, would be legally valid in New York, which strictly restricts gun sales and does not recognize any other state’s concealed-carry permits. In other words, Georgia and other states would have more say than New York in determining how many guns are safe to have on the streets of Manhattan. The inflow of weapons that could then be carried around secretly would threaten law and order.

Genuine self-defense episodes, however, are scarce. Deaths caused by concealed-carry gun owners are not. Research shows that far from stopping mayhem, concealed-carry gun owners have been doing more harm to themselves, their family members and other innocent victims. Since May 2007, they have been responsible for at least 1,119 deaths not involving self-defense, including in 31 mass shootings and the killing of 21 law enforcement officers, according to the Violence Policy Center, a gun safety group.

There were more people murdered in Chicago in 2016 (762) and 2017 (587 so far) together than in all cited above. There are more people killed with automobiles yearly: should we not allow people to drive them across state lines? It’s easier to get a license in some states than others.

I’d like to see the bill expanded, where people who are lawfully allowed to open-carry a legally owned handgun be able to do the same in the gun-grabbing states. Anyhow, if the NY Times doesn’t like this, tough. To use the words of Barack Obama, the GOP can say “I won.” Oh, and has the NY Times given up their own armed security at their Manhattan office yet?

Oh, and two of the fastest growing holders of concealed carry permits are women and gays: does the NY Times wish to deny protection to them when they are in the violent and dangerous, low law and order Democrat states?

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Winter’s Future Is Totally Bleak, You Guys

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 2:36 pm

All because Someone Else refused to mortgage their future and buy a Tesla and buy carbon credits from So Gore

Why winter’s future is bleak

After a string of beautiful days that weather forecasters insist on calling “crisp” (why do they do that?), cloud moved in through the afternoon, the temperature climbed, and it rained.

And in the cafe where I like to read the papers over a flat white, they were playing In the Bleak Midwinter:

“In the bleak midwinter/ Frosty wind made moan/ Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone/ Snow was falling, snow on snow/ Snow on snow / In the bleak midwinter/ Long ago…”

Ok, seems nice. Then the crazy train arrived

The forecasters and the bookies suggest we’re in for one this winter, the coldest temperatures since records began and other headline-grabbing nonsense.

Yet this crazily fluctuating weather is something we should all worry about, not global warming (though the globe is warming), not climate change (though the climate is changing), but climate chaos. (Snip)

But from nature’s point of view, and from that of this nature writer, the only bleak thing about midwinter 2017 is that it stands on the verge of extinction.

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If All You See…

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 1:00 pm

…are plants that will die from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Small Dead Animals, with a post on the SJW playbook.

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‘Climate Change’ Might Lower Salaries Or Something

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 10:30 am

The latest in scary this might possibly maybe could we think prognostications from the Cult of Climastrology, and this is a Whopper from the same people who think abortion on demand is super awesome, and that fetus’ are just lumps of tissue

Climate Change Might Lower Salaries

Even if countries take moderate action on climate change, by the end of this century, Phoenix is expected to have an extra month of days above 95 degrees Fahrenheit, while Washington, D.C., is expected to have another three weeks of these sweltering days, as the Climate Impact Lab and New York Times reported.

A new study suggests that even days that are an average of 90 degrees Fahrenheit, or 32 Celsius, might have long-term, negative impacts on developing fetuses. The stress of the hot weather might show up as reduced human capital once those fetuses reach adulthood.

Maya Rossin-Slater, a health-policy professor at Stanford University, said she and her team wanted to understand the long-term consequences of climate change on people. For the study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, she and other researchers looked at data on births, weather, and earnings in half the states in the United States. For a given county, on a given day, they measured how many days above 90 degrees a child born that day would have experienced during gestation and during their first year of life. They then compared that person’s salary as an adult to someone born in that same county on that same day in other years.

It turned out fetuses and infants exposed to a single extra 90-plus degree day made $30 less a year, on average, or $430 less over the course of their entire lifetimes. Right now, the average American only experiences one such day a year. (This study looked at the average temperature throughout the entire day, not the highest temperature that day.) By the end of the century, there will be about 43 such days a year.

They went looking for an answer to their beliefs, and, shockingly, found one! I wonder how long it will be till this study is memory holed because it had serious issues?

What’s more, the study used data from the 1970s, when more and more people were installing air conditioners in their houses. The researchers found the difference in earnings went away in areas where most people got air conditioners installed.

These are the same air conditioners that Warmists want to make really, really expensive for Other People, particularly Blacks and Asians.

It’s not entirely clear how hot temperatures would be causing this dip in earnings. Fetuses and infants are especially sensitive to heat because they don’t yet have the ability to self-regulate their body temperatures. Rossin-Slater said there are three potential pathways by which being too hot could impact the fetus: The heat could overstress it, which could affect the child’s health. Heat could also affect how nutrients are delivered to the fetus, or harm its cognitive development, and thus potentially things like focus or self-control.

Interesting. They really aren’t sure, but they’ll be happy to scaremonger.

https://twitter.com/4TimesAYear/status/937909573121437697

The climate scam reduces Warmist IQs by 50 points.

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Witch Hunt: Mueller Expands Investigation, Subpoenas Trump Deutsche Bank Records

By William Teach December 5, 2017 – 7:17 am

It’s been a year since Trump won the election. Democrats have been yammering about Russian interference even longer. Mueller has been investigating for the majority of 2017. So far, no proof of Russian collusion. People said this investigation would go off the rails in investigating everything, rather than “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump…” Mueller can basically do whatever he wants, with really no control on the scope of investigations by the Judicial branch nor Legislative Branch. At this point, the investigation is so far outside the original scope as to be nothing but revenge for winning an election

(Bloomberg) Special prosecutor Robert Mueller zeroed in on President Donald Trump’s business dealings with Deutsche Bank AG as his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in U.S. elections widens.

Mueller issued a subpoena to Germany’s largest lender several weeks ago, forcing the bank to submit documents on its relationship with Trump and his family, according to a person briefed on the matter, who asked not to be identified because the action has not been announced. (snip)

Deutsche Bank for months has rebuffed calls by Democratic lawmakers to provide more transparency over the roughly $300 million Trump owed to the bank for his real estate dealings prior to becoming president. Representative Maxine Waters of California and other Democrats have asked whether the bank’s loans to Trump, made years before he ran for president, were in any way connected to Russia. The bank previously rejectedthose demands, saying sharing client data would be illegal unless it received a formal request to do so. Trump has denied any wrongdoing. (snip)

Trump’s relationship with Deutsche Bank stretches back some two decades and the roughly $300 million he owed to the bank represented nearly half of his outstanding debt, according to a July 2016 analysis by Bloomberg. That figure includes a $170-million loan Trump took out to finish a hotel in Washington. He also has two mortgages against his Trump National Doral Miami resort and a loan against his tower in Chicago.

Trump’s holdings and other things related to Deutsche have virtually nothing to do with any sort of collusion accusation, except though magical thinking in that Deutsche does business with Russia. Like lots of giant banks.

In July, Trump said in an interview with the New York Times that if Mueller examined his family’s finances beyond any relationship with Russia he’d consider it “a violation.” Mueller’s investigation had expanded to examine a broad range of transactions involving the president’s businesses, including dealings by his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, a person familiar with the probe told Bloomberg News after the publication of the Times interview.

One has to wonder if Mueller is intentionally attempting to get Trump to fire him, so that Democrats can push impeachment over “obstruction of justice.”

This farce has gone on long enough. It was based on whiny complaints made up with no evidence, along with the totally fake FusionGPS document. Then ramped up after the election by Sore Losers. Mueller hasn’t found any evidence of collusion after all this time. A main investigator for Mueller, who’s also a Democrat supporter, was a big time Hillary supporter and wrote nasty things about Trump. And let’s not forget that none of Hillary’s aides were punished for lying to the FBI. Nor has Hillary been charged, despite lying to the FBI.

Unless Mueller can offer concrete proof that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia at this time, end it. No more witch hunts.

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